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Markus Eicher

Hello friends 🤛

I guess and also hope that the desaster has at least one good side effect. The shift of the paradigm about how we use the , , and as a whole. No matter what happens to Musk's playground, people start to realize that we need more independent and systems, where we OWN the data and not ARE the data.

I think we now have the big chance, to influence this movement into a direction that fits for way more people than the old.

If we manage to make it easier for casual users to join, and eventually create interfaces with a human first approach to interact with the different services, that would be a great thing.

I just started a project with the working title (a bit silly I guess 😁) on GitHub. It's almost nothing there but I will work on it as much as my health will allow. Basic Idea is to collect ideas, feature requests and valuable information about the topic. It's and I will post a link soon.

@MarkusEicher if we're not the data, it's going to be harder to finance no?

@rufen No doubt. That's absolutely true. ✅ We need to find solutions for that problem.

@MarkusEicher the biggest privates communities are private torrents sites, they rely on donation, but they kinda sell a product too.

@rufen I would not rule out an option to have a certain amount of commerce on a part of the platform at this point. It's just a matter of who controls it (eg. not a single company) and if it's transparent and have easy options to opt out from it. This are exactly the kind of questions and discussions I would like to host in the project.